The Highstreet SW11, 1982-1983

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Each unit evokes a specific, interior environment, carefully lit and built using false perspective. Views into the cellars reveal narrative subplots.

These dioramas represent the pre-gentrified area of SW11 in London where interior spaces retained a forlorn, seedy ambience and whose multiple histories were still clearly visible. Unselfconscious architecture with a make do and mend philosophy.

House Clearances 1983
mixed media diorama.
221 x 76 x 61 cm. Private collection

Curry Palace 1983
mixed media diorama.
221 x 76 x 61 cm. Artists collection

Unemployment Benefit Office - Box 3 1983 mixed media diorama.
221 x 76 x 61 cm. Artists collection

Unit 44 1983
mixed media diorama.
221 x 76 x 61 cm. Artists collection

AK Patel 1983
mixed media diorama.
221 x 76 x 61 cm. Private collection

Poster

exhibited at
1988 Exhibition Road 150 Years, Royal College of Art.
1983 Royal College of Art, degree show.

appeared in these articles
1983 New British Art, Marina Vaizey, Sunday Times, May.
High St SW11, Nicola Gooch, South Western Star, April 29.

featured in these books
1999 Visions, 50 Years of British Creativity, Thames & Hudson.
1988 Exhibition Road, 150 Years RCA Painting, Phaidon.